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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that Russia would be successful in Ukraine unless the United States kept up its support for Kyiv. Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Joe Biden’s request for $106 billion …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stressed the importance of taking all possible measures to minimise casualties and protect civilians in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. “The Prime Minister reiterated the UK’s resolute backing for Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, while emphasising the importance of taking all possible …

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By Emma Farge and Aidan Lewis (Reuters) -Distribution of food and medical supplies is faltering in Gaza due to a chronic lack of fuel, looting of stores, the choking of streets with rubble from Israeli shelling and overcrowding caused by displacement of civilians. And despite an uptick in the trickle of supplies, the number of …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Paris police shot and critically wounded a woman wearing a hijab who was behaving in a threatening manner and shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “You’re all going to die” in a metro station on Tuesday morning, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said. France is on its highest state of alert after the Oct. 13 …

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By Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh and Leonardo Benassatto DALIYAT AL-KARMEL, Israel (Reuters) – Hired to cater for an all-night Israeli music festival, Rada and Raif Rashed fled for their lives just after dawn, when Hamas militants rampaged through the crowd on Oct. 7 turning the celebration into a place of horror. The brothers saw partygoers falling …

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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. The International Counter Ransomware Initiative comes as the number of ransomware attacks grows worldwide. …

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By Jonathan Saul JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces are moving slowly in their ground offensive in Gaza in part to keep open the possibility of drawing Hamas militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 hostages, military specialists consulted by Reuters said. The relative caution with which Israeli troops have taken and secured slices of …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Russian tycoon Alexey Kuzmichev, has been detained for questioning in France in connection with alleged tax evasion and money laundering and for violating international sanctions, the French Financial Prosecutors’ office said on Tuesday. Searches took place on Monday at Kuzmichev’s Paris home and in the Mediterranean Var region as part of the investigation, …

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